very excited abt #AWS2024Vienna ! Months of work have gone into this. The beautiful #Vienna Hofburg Vienna will be full with 800 participants frm close to 130 States + many experts frm CSOs, academia + industry

Humanity is at a Crossroads - time to act on autonomous weapons systems !

🚨 Starting in 1⃣ hour: Join us for a webinar on autonomous weapons systems to explore how discussions on #LAWS have evolved in international forums and to look ahead at this month's conference on LAWS in #Vienna 🇦🇹

💻 Watch live on YouTube ➡️ youtube.com/live/CvW3wpZ1X…

📢 We're excited to bring you a panel of outstanding speakers for tomorrow's webinar ahead of the 2024 Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems #LAWS Register now ➡️ vcdnp.org/laws/

▶️ Ambassador Alexander Kmentt alexander kmentt
▶️ Anja Dahlmann Anja Dahlmann
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. #Austria at today’s #HCoC AnnualMeeting highlighted the Code’s transparency&confidence-building role, urgently needed with the strained #disarmament &non-proliferation architecture. As Executive Secretariat, pledge to work closely with new chair #Chile to further improve the Code

In less than 3️⃣ weeks we’ll be in #Vienna 🇦🇹 for the #ActionAtTheCrossroads civil society forum.

Register today to learn more about autonomous weapons and the problem of regulation: stopkillerrobots.org/actionatthecro…

#AWS #AWS 2024

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Yes Boston Globe Opinion we all should be worrying about The Bomb. There are many orgs, like @armscontrolnow, that are working hard to reduce the threat of nuclear war and pressing our elected leaders to reduce the threat. Here is one way to join the effort: armscontrol.org/take-action/co…

Editorial: How is it that the horror of a nuclear attack — a danger even more immediate than climate change and more devastating than mass migration, inflation, crime, or terrorism — is so completely out of sight and mind for the majority of Americans? trib.al/ltv7AfE

Anna Hehir: Banning the most dangerous autonomous weapons axios.com/2024/04/04/ai-…

#AWS2024

Increasingly important issue especially given recent news - am v keen to be there!

Another European capital adopts a motion supporting the #TPNW , calls on its government to join the treaty and joins the ICAN Cities Appeal. Welcome Tirana! Congratulations to ICAN campaigners in Albania for this success! 👏🏼tirana.al/artikull/tiran…

Holy See: ‘Nuclear deterrence is an illusion’ - Vatican News vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

Here is the link to the Vienna Conference:

„Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation“

Register here: AWS2024.at

#AWS2024

Join the VCDNP with alexander kmentt, Anja Dahlmann and Laurent Gisel to discuss the evolution of multilateral debate on #LAWS and the upcoming conference - 16 April, 15:00-16:30 CEST 👇

'fight one nuclear war while deterring another' - wait, I thought that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought

#TechDiplomacyTalk
'Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems: human-machine relations at an inflection point' w/ @ehoffbergerp AnjaK Erich Prem Claudia Reinprecht - Austrian Quantum Diplomat alexander kmentt
April 17th 2024 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
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When I've talked to people about putting AI in nuclear command and control, which is possibly one of the worst ideas ever, they often ask whether anyone is seriously advocating for this. They are. warontherocks.com/2024/03/americ…

The first edition of our Autonomous Weapons Newsletter is out now!

This month we cover:
-Our new weapons database
-This month's CCW GGE (haiku included)
-Upcoming conferences: Freetown! Vienna!
-Policy updates from around the world 🌍

Read & subscribe 👉 tinyurl.com/yhntfpth

🎥 Thank you all for joining tonight’s Ciné-ONU #Vienna screening of “Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?” marking International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness - with Stephanie Fenkart, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Vienna, alexander kmentt and Elena Sokova.

#DisarmamentDay

Discussions in CCW’s GGE have gone on for ten years. First Austria’s initiative to table a resolution in UNGA, now the conference in Vienna - this is real progress to lift the debate from a limited forum to a wider circle of meaningful considerations. #AWS

Emma Pike presents an accessible, clear, and educational video on the evolution of nuclear disarmament advocacy.

Instead of actually listening to her message, some idiots orchestrated an avalanche of racist, sexist, vitriolic comments. 1/2